Word: coy
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...hundred and twenty-five pounds of good humour, five feet five and eyes of hazel, "Miss Lupe" thinks Midshipmen are "swell says," and she's sure we'll make the world's best officers. Being very coy about her social life, all Lupy would say is "Yes, I have dated ensigns," and "No, I've never been out with a Midshipman...
...actress does not belie the woman. Ruth Gordon has a sharp tongue in her head, no coy sweetness, no fake modesty. Told she stands on the theater's top rung, she retorts: "It's about time." Told that The Three Sisters will be a model for aspiring actresses, she snaps: "It should be." Asked to compare her acting with Cornell's and Anderson's, she counters: "Do you say that Renoir is two inches behind Manet, or Degas a foot ahead?" She snarls at Nature: "I don't care if a flower grows upside down...
...oritas and their buccaneer abductors, settles down to handsomely routine piratical high jinks. For Sabatini-addicts there is veteran Director Henry King's expert translation of Sabatini's romantic novel about young love and buckets of blood on the Spanish Main. For others there is a coy love affair between Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara...
...domestic affairs, Franklin Roosevelt conferred on the manpower problem (with his Congressional leaders-, on the 1943 budget (with Budget Director Harold Smith and Assistant Director Wayne Coy); lunched with New York's retiring Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who is expected to get a big Government job; signed the 18-19-year-old draft bill...
...tall, cool Sumner Welles suddenly ran out. For months the State Department had politely nudged the governments of Argentina and Chile, reminding them of hemispheric unity. But Argentina, under isolationist President Ramón S. Castillo, stayed stubbornly unregenerate. And Chile, under veteran politico President Juan Antonio Rios, kept coy. They, alone of all the Americas, refused to break relations with the Axis...